AP - Myanmar should investigate reports that inmates were shot to death in a Yangon prison as Cyclone Nargis ravaged the country last month, a U.N. human rights expert said Friday. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:16:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
AP - The U.N.'s top humanitarian official says at least 2 million people in Zimbabwe are facing a greater risk of starvation, homelessness and disease. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:24:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
AP - Refugees and aid workers in eastern Chad told U.N. Security Council members Friday that their biggest worries are insecurity and banditry, which have been on the rise in the area for months.
Reuters - The International Criminal
Court prosecutor said on Thursday he would seek new indictments
next month against top officials, accusing Sudan's "entire
state apparatus" of involvement in crimes in Darfur.
AP - The United States on Thursday expressed outrage over what it called Zimbabwe's unjust detention of U.S. diplomats and protested the envoys' treatment at the United Nations.
AP - African leaders at the U.N. food summit said Thursday that Barack Obama becoming the Democratic presidential nominee was a point of pride and one that could lead to increased U.S. focus on problems in Africa. -- read full article
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:23:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
AFP - The United States said Thursday it was "outraged" at Zimbabwe's detention of US diplomats, raised the case at the UN Security Council, and denounced anew Harare's crackdown on the opposition.
AFP - International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Thursday implored the UN Security Council to demand Khartoum arrest two Darfur war crimes suspects and said he would unveil new evidence next month.
AP - The U.N. Security Council got a firsthand look Thursday at the worsening conflict in Darfur, which has killed up to 300,000 people and forced 2.5 million to flee their homes.
AP - Sudan's actions in Darfur have helped turn the region into "a crime scene," the chief U.N. prosecutor charged Thursday, expanding on a scathing report this week that directly linked the government to a feared militia blamed for much of the killing.
AP - World leaders at a U.N. summit embraced an ambitious strategy to combat a food crisis that is causing violent riots and threatening to push up to a billion people across the globe into hunger.
AFP - The UN Security Council expressed concern after Zimbabwe police detained US and British diplomats in a dramatic confrontation at a roadblock amid signs of an intensifying crackdown ahead of a presidential run-off election.
AP - Iran is threatening to sue countries that it says have damaged its reputation and pushed to have U.N. Security Council involvement in its nuclear program.
Reuters - The United Nations urged the world
on Thursday to kick the habit of producing carbon dioxide,
saying everyone must act to fight climate change.
Reuters - The International Criminal
Court prosecutor said on Thursday he would seek new indictments
next month against top officials, accusing Sudan's "entire
state apparatus" of involvement in crimes in Darfur.
